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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ten questions are posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader.
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1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Chronicles the life of writer, poet, and meditation master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's most revered 20th-century Buddhist teachers, whose students include His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Royal Family of Bhutan.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Two Nobel Peace Prize winners--His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu--use their own childhood stories to show young readers how to embrace the transformative power of joy and share it with the world.
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iv, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Draws on studies with leading neuroscience researchers and the Dalai Lama to examine the health benefits of meditation, in a transcript of a scientific conference at Washington, D.C.'s Mind and Life Institute that explores the mind's capacity for influencing physical disease.
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to become a photographer, Nicholas' life changed drastically upon meeting a Tibetan master, one of the teachers of the Dalai Lama.
72) Earth emergency
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1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Listen to the scientists. That's the refrain of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth's own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet.
74) State of control
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In this harrowing documentary, Christian Johnston and Darren Mann, two American filmmakers, go undercover in Tibet during a full scale media blackout. Trying to funnel information out of the region, they become targets of surveillance, hotel break-ins, equipment theft, and cyber assault. Forced to flee and return to America, the filmmakers learn the hacking and surveillance they experienced in Tibet has followed them home.
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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An up-close and personal journey following the astounding path of one of the world's great spiritual traditions from the caves of Tibet to the mainstream of Western culture. Along the way, the film tackles the provocative exchanges between Buddhist practitioners and scholars and Western scientists, psychologists, and educators now at the heart of the emergence of a genuine Western tradition of Buddhism.
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li, 535 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Reflecting the insights and intentions of the original work, this text includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state and practices that transform the experience of daily life and the process of dying.